Alone in the Dark Wiki:Article layout guideline/Location article

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This page contains the Alone in the Dark Wiki's article layout guideline for locations. It describes the standard layout for articles about locations.

Guidelines describe desired etiquette and common practice in the creation, editing and organization of articles on this wiki. Any registered editor is free to edit this page to improve its readability as long as the essence of the article remains unchanged. If you would like to suggest content changes or propose a new policy or guideline, please use the wiki discussion forum. See the policies and guidelines page for an overview of this wiki's policies and guidelines.

Infobox and categories

A few additional pointers regarding the applicable infobox and categories:

• The applicable infobox for location pages is {{LocationInfobox }}. For details on its usage, please refer to the template page itself.
• A location page is only categorized in one category. The category depends on the game it appears in (e.g. Category:AITD2008 locations). A further distinction should be made if it is an unmarked location, i.e. a location which does not have a marker on the world map (e.g. [[:Category:Alone in the Dark III unmarked locations]]).

Location article layout

There are two standard layouts for locations: one for settlements or districts of large settlements and one for all other locations.

Each layout is composed of three tables. The top and bottom tables are standard layout items found in every article; they are only included here for completeness and are collapsed by default. The middle table contains the actual specifics for location pages.

• yes in the "headline" column means that the article should have a headline of that name if you want to include such a layout item.
  no in the "headline" column means that this layout item should not have a headline.
• yes in the "required" column means that every location article should include this layout item.
  no in the "required" column means that not every location article needs to include this layout item.

Standard layout

This is the layout for all locations except settlements or districts thereof.

Standard layout items (top)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation {{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|Alone in the Dark Wiki:Article layout guideline}}|-	Page management boxes	no	no	Page management templates are used if you notice that something is out of order with a certain article or section and want to bring it to the attention of other editors or administrators. If the issue affects the whole article, these boxes should be placed at the very top of an article; if only a section is affected, they should be placed just below the headline of the respective section. The only exception are stub templates; see Stub templates below. For a list of page management boxes, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Page management templates.
Project tags	no	no	Projects are joint efforts of editors who work together to improve a set of articles that cover a certain area of interest. Some of these projects have tags or boxes which are placed on the pages which the project affects; these should be placed below the article management boxes.
"For" template	no	no	{{for}} is used to make a reader aware of other articles they may have been looking for when entering the title of the current page.
Infobox	no	yes	The purpose of infoboxes is to summarize data relating to the article. Infoboxes should appear in the top-right corner of an article. For a list of infobox templates, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Infobox templates.
"Games" template	no	yes	{{Games}} should be placed just below the infobox (if there is one). It produces small icons in the top right corner of an article which allow the reader to see "at a glance" what games or sources the article relates to or is based on. The template should be used in every article; almost no exceptions exist.{{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|}}

Location-specific layout items (standard)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Lead section	no	yes	Small paragraph which contains the following bits of information: location name (and alternative names) in bold. type of location (building, factory, metro tunnel etc) size (small, medium, large); for buildings inside towns, this is replaced by the owners/inhabitants faction (wastelanders/ghouls/Outcasts etc) which inhabits it number of interior zones it consists of
Background	yes	no	If there's any background story/history for the location.
Adjacent rooms	yes	yes	add dot points of the any rooms connected or accessible by this room and vice versa. Sometimes the said access could be one way only, so it would be probably best to mentioned it as such.
Layout	yes	yes	Describe the layout for each section: what it looks like, connections to the other sections, how many and what type of enemy can be found here. Make a subsection for each zone of the location, titled with the ingame name of the zone. Start with a section called "Exterior" where you describe the entrance area. The basic premise is that the section should give someone who has not seen the location an idea of what it looks like and how it is set up.
Notes	yes	no	For interesting things about the location which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum.
Appearances	yes	yes	Which games this location appears in.

Standard layout items (bottom)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation {{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|Fallout Wiki:Article layout guideline}}Fallout Wiki:Article layout guideline{{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|}}

Rooms, chambers or small interconnected areas

This is the layout for settlements or districts thereof. The latter should only have own articles if the settlement is sufficiently large.

Standard layout items (top)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation {{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|Alone in the Dark Wiki:Article layout guideline}}|-	Page management boxes	no	no	Page management templates are used if you notice that something is out of order with a certain article or section and want to bring it to the attention of other editors or administrators. If the issue affects the whole article, these boxes should be placed at the very top of an article; if only a section is affected, they should be placed just below the headline of the respective section. The only exception are stub templates; see Stub templates below. For a list of page management boxes, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Page management templates.
Project tags	no	no	Projects are joint efforts of editors who work together to improve a set of articles that cover a certain area of interest. Some of these projects have tags or boxes which are placed on the pages which the project affects; these should be placed below the article management boxes.
"For" template	no	no	{{for}} is used to make a reader aware of other articles they may have been looking for when entering the title of the current page.
Infobox	no	yes	The purpose of infoboxes is to summarize data relating to the article. Infoboxes should appear in the top-right corner of an article. For a list of infobox templates, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Infobox templates.
"Games" template	no	yes	{{Games}} should be placed just below the infobox (if there is one). It produces small icons in the top right corner of an article which allow the reader to see "at a glance" what games or sources the article relates to or is based on. The template should be used in every article; almost no exceptions exist.{{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|}}

See also

• Alone in the Dark Wiki:Content organization guideline

Location-specific layout items (settlement/district)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Lead section	no	yes	Small paragraph which contains the following bits of information: type of location (settlement) size (small, medium, large) faction (wastelanders/ghouls/Outcasts etc) which inhabits it number of interior zones it consists of (if applicable)